Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
JOHN ORTBERGOne reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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